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Charity
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We are here on earth to do good to others.
What the others are here for, I don't know.
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-W.H. Auden
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The law cannot, must not, rely upon charity,
which is certainly a very beautiful thing, but cannot be relied upon when
legislating for human beings.
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-Jose Inacio Barros Cobra, opposing the Rio
Brance Law in Paraguay
July 21, 1871
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Because I was in paine to consider the miserable
condition of the old man; and now my almes, giving him some reliefe, doth also
ease me.
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-Thomas Hobbes
Qtd. in Aubrey, ed., Brief Lives
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*Men's lives are short. The
hard man and his cruelties will be cursed behind his back, and mocked in death.
But one whose heart and ways are kind--of him strangers will hear report to the
wide world, and distant men will praise him.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. XIX, "Recognitions and a Dream", 386-391
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The art of giving is perfected through
anonymity.
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-Doug Horton
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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never
of those we give.
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-John Petit-Senn
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the
recipient to become independent of it.
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-John D. Rockefeller
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